This week has been full of news about the Clinton Global Initiative, initiated in 2005 by former President Bill Clinton “to inspire, connect, and empower a community of global leaders to forge solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges.” Specifically, the New York Times ran an article about the Teach for All program, modeled after Teach [...]
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AAUW Fellows in Action: It’s All Global
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Anacapa, California, China, Clinton Global Initia, Ecuador, education, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Grants & Awards, Innovation Awards Gallery, New York Times, Sarayaku, Teach for All on September 28, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Parting Words from Last Year’s Fellows and Grantees
Posted in A Women's Nation, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, American Fellowship, Career Development Grant, education, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, grants and awards, International Fellowship on September 21, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
There are many rewarding aspects to working in Fellowships and Grants at AAUW, but one in particular is reading about all the amazing accomplishments of our outgoing fellowship and grant recipients in their final reports. Some have graduated and are venturing into the working world; others are finding new inspiration as they make the final [...]
Meet Gwendolyn Pough: Author and Black Feminist Theorist
Posted in A Women's Nation, Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Check It While I Wreck It, Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood Hip Hop Culture and the Public Sphere, Conference on College Composition and Communication, education, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, feminism, Following the Fellows, Gwendolyn Pough, Gwyneth Bolton, Miami University in Ohio, Northeastern University, Syracus University on August 31, 2011, | 1 Comment »
2003–04 AAUW American Fellow Gwendolyn Pough was drawn to black feminist thought when one of her professors gave her a copy of bell hooks’ Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism. While working toward her master’s and doctoral degrees in English from Northeastern University and Miami University in Ohio respectively, she sought out texts [...]
Meet Nicole Prévost Logan: Author and Global Citizen
Posted in A Women's Nation, Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, American University, Belgium, Earthwatch, education, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, feminism, Following the Fellows, Forever on the Road, France, Grants & Awards, Kremlin, Moscow, Nigeria, Russia, Sorbonne, South Africa, Soviet Union, Stanford, Stanford University, Taiwan, U.S. Foreign Service on August 17, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
When I met 1950–51 AAUW International Fellow Nicole Prévost Logan at the AAUW national office in Washington, D.C., I had no idea that I was sitting across from a woman who had spent more than 30 years traveling among three continents, mingling with officials and dignitaries from all over the world, and learning several languages [...]
All-China Meets AAUW
Posted in A Women's Nation, S T E M, Sex Discrimination, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Women and Civil Rights, tagged AAUW, All-China Women's Federation, education, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, feminism, Grants & Awards, Guangdong, Hubei, Hunan, international fellowships, Jiangsu, leadership, National Girls Collaborative Project, STEM, The People's Bank of China, Tibet Women's Association, U.S.-China Exchange Council, women leaders, Yangzhou on August 8, 2011, | 2 Comments »
As a part of AAUW’s ongoing commitment to improving the status of women and girls globally via fellowships, grassroots programming, and advocacy, AAUW recently hosted 18 women from the All-China Women’s Federation. The Federation was established in 1949 by the Chinese government and has become the largest women’s nongovernmental organization in that country. It represents [...]
Meet Anamarija Frankić: Ecologist and Steward
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, S T E M, The AAUW Community, Women and Work, tagged AAUW, Boston, Croatia, ecologist, ecosystems, Fellowships, Following the Fellows, International Fellowship, International Fellowship program, MA, Marie Curie, STEM, UNESCO, University of Massachusetts, VA, Virginia, Zagreb on August 3, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
While completing her master’s degree in ecology and limnology (freshwater science) at the University of Zagreb in Croatia, 1995–96 AAUW International Fellow Anamarija Frankić spent five years working as an ecologist for the Plitvice Lakes, one of UNESCO’s World Heritage sites and one of the oldest national parks in Croatia. This experience opened her eyes [...]
AAUW Heads Back to School
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, NCCWSL, S T E M, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged campus, college, Fellowships, grants, leadership, salary, students, university on September 8, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
It’s September! That means scores of students are boarding busses and getting back to school. No matter your student status, check out the long list of opportunities and programs available to both student affiliates and AAUW members. STUDENTS – Here are some of AAUW’s best bets for this fall. Not a student? Pass this along [...]
Meet Jill Deiss: Book Conservator and Bookbinder
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged book binding, Career Development Grants, Cat Tail Run Hand Bookbinding, conservation, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows on May 12, 2010, | 2 Comments »
A renowned bookbinder and conservator, Jill Deiss has cleaned and pressed the pages of historical works like Edgar Allen Poe’s family Bible, John Wilkes Booth’s diary, and Shakespeare’s First Folio. These days Jill is looking forward to pressing and cleaning a letter signed by Eleanor Roosevelt and addressed to AAUW. The conservation of this letter [...]
Meet Hanna Stevenson: Sculptor and Apprentice Pipefitter
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Women and Work, tagged career development grantee, Fairbanks, Fellowships, Fellowships and Awards, Following the Fellows, grants and awards, hanna Stevenson, pipefitter, University of Alaska on June 29, 2009, | 1 Comment »
This past winter, for 2007–08 Career Development grantee and sculptor Hanna Stevenson, a typical day began at 5:15 a.m. with a breakfast of ice cream and coffee. To protect her body from the cold Alaskan weather and high winds during her work as an apprentice pipefitter, she wore at least four layers of clothes. She [...]
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